Wednesday, 29 March 2017

I have a card to show you today using two tags, Distress Inks and Dylusions sprays

Spread some Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron and Carved Pumpkin Distress ink onto a mat, spray it with water and drag the larger tag through the ink. Repeat this with the smaller tag and Twisted Citron Distress ink. Once dry place the petal mask over the tags and spray with White Linen.

Continue spraying the tags through the mask with Squeezed Orange and Lemon Zest Dylusions sprays.

Once dry blend some Twisted Citron Distressed Ink over a Honeycomb mask and around the edges. Mount the tags to some black cardstock, and glue them together.

Stamp two butterflies using archival ink and blend some Squeezed Lemon Distress Ink over the top, doodle over the butterflies with a black pen. Once dry glue the butterflies and some die cut flowers to the front of the card.

Friday, 24 March 2017

I must say i am really enjoying playing with the new Distress Oxide inks. They are just so lovely to use and because they are an Opaque ink, you can achieve some lovely effects.

the only problem with this card, was the fact that i was having so much fun playing that it was only when i had finished that i realised i hadn't taken any photos expect for the very first stage

The background was done with Broken China and Iced Spruce, using the wrinkle free distress method, they really do layer so nicely providing you dry between each layer.

After this layer was dry i added one of the Inspiration Jars direct to the background, and then using post it note to mask off the jar, i then stamped in Sunflowers by Lesley Matthewson then using another piece of post it and stamping with the sunflower made another mask and re-stamped the sunflowers a couple more times. I painted the flowers using spiced marmalade and peeled paint, and kept layering and drying until i was haps with the colours. I then lightly stamped the new Neil Walker web stamp, and edged over the top with more spiced marmalade. Used a piece of scrap card with spiced marmalade on to stamp the phrase from the Botanicals plate.

Sunday, 19 March 2017

Hello happy stampers !Have you seen these pictures on Pinterest that show painted tea bags ? they are amazing !I love to use tea bags in my projects, and I have decided this time to stamp Artistic Stamper women on these, women from Seaside No. 1 # 018 A5, Dressmaking No. 1 A5 and Gibson Girls

Saturday, 11 March 2017

Well its been a beautiful day down here in on the East Kent Coast, and it felt like Spring had finally arrived! The other thing that had arrived, were my first four colours of Distress Oxides. The new release from Tim Holtz. So having had a quick play at the weekend when i got them home, today it was time to try them out properly. Here is what i did

The colours i brought home were Walnut Stain, Spiced Marmalade. Peeled Paint and Wilted Violet. No other ink was used on the tag, other than a Black Micron pen and a White Signo pen.

Using the wrinkle free distress method i popped some spiced marmalade, walnut stain and peeled paint onto my craft mat, sprayed with water and then swiped the tag through the colours, dried the first layer and then went back in to pick up more ink.

Until i was happy with background. It was at this point that i started to get very excited and got carried away and forgot to take photos as i added the stamping to the background.

It was as i was nearly finished that i suddenly remembered. I used a couple of the new mini background stamps, the harlequin, from set #2 and the bee hive and swirl(although that one is a tad difficult to see) from #3

Tuesday, 7 March 2017

Hi there,How about showing you another tag to help you participate in our March challenge ?This one is built the same way as the previous one you have seen here : March's Creative Challenge - Springtime

The background is made of gelli printed butterflies. Then I have stamped flowers and sentiments with tone-on-tone ink, and highlighted the "thank you" with a white pen. The support is a cereal box painted with black gesso.

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Hi
A huge thank you to everyone who joined in last month's challenge. All of the creations were {love}ly!This month's challenge is Springtime, and can be interpreted any way you like, as long as it has rubber stamping in it.

To join in with this
challenge (we are limiting the challenge entries to 3 per person), is simple;
all we would like you to do is, make a piece of artwork, making sure
that youinclude the theme and some rubber stamping. Pop
back here to link up using the Inklinkz at the bottom of this post, so
that we can see what you've made and then, leave us a comment to let us
know you have joined in with the challenge.
As always, there will be
candy for one randomly picked entrant - the winner will receive a stamp of their choice from The Artistic Stamper .

To
celebrate the springtime coming, I have made a tag from a pizza box I
have painted with dark gesso. The paper was backgrounded with Distress
inks, and flowers stamped and stenciled, and then cut out stamped
flowers added.